Geoff Pender: A week full of incomprehensible events

9:44 PM,
Apr. 20, 2013

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At some point, my willing suspension of disbelief got shattered. Maybe it was when news broke that Sen. Roger Wicker and President Barack Obama had both received letters believed to contain the poison ricin. Maybe it was when we learned state Rep. Steve Holland's 80-year-old mother, Lee County Judge Sadie Holland, also received a letter.

Or maybe it was when the suspect turned out to be an Elvis impersonator from northeast Mississippi, or when Wicker confirmed that he had hired the suspect years ago to impersonate Elvis at a party he and his wife threw. ...